Tickets for the gala — which includes a cocktail reception, elegant dinner, preferred concert seating and a post-performance dessert reception — are on sale now at $550 each. Call 610-758-5071 or email gala2013@lehigh.edu.

Concert tickets, at $75 and $150, will go on sale to the public July 11. The ticket will cover the post-performance dessert reception.

A limited number of tickets are available at $55 for students.

Zoellner Arts Center subscribers and donors can buy tickets April 6. To become a subscriber or donor, call ticket services at 610-758-2787, ext. 0, or go to http://www.zoellnerartscenter.org.

Morrison, 34, will perform Broadway standards and hits of the Great American Songbook with a 65-piece orchestra.

Since 2009, he has played Will Schuester, a William McKinley High School Spanish teacher and glee club director, on the musical comedy-drama about high school glee club performers.

In its first three years, the show received 35 Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for Morrison in 2010, and won six.

It was nominated for 10 Golden Globe Awards — Morrison twice for Best Actor in a Television Series Musical or Comedy — and won four, including Best Television Series, Musical or Comedy," in 2010.

Before his work on "Glee," Morrison starred on Broadway for years, making his debut in "Footloose," then working in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."

His role as Link Larkin in the original cast of the Broadway production of "Hairspray" led to his being cast in the critically acclaimed "The Light In The Piazza." His portrayal of young lover Fabrizio Naccarelli in "Piazza" got him a Tony Award nomination.

Morrison released a self-titled album in 2011 that peaked at No. 24 on Billboard and produced a single, "Summer Rain," that hit No. 16 on the adult contemporary chart.

The album has duets with Elton John on a medley of "Mona Lisas and Madhatters" and "Rocket Man," Sting on "Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot" and Gwyneth Paltrow on "Over the Rainbow."

Morrison also was briefly in the boy band LMNT. He has a new album due out this year.

Morrison has had a handful of other film and television roles, including an extended character on the former CBS-TV supernatural drama "Ghost Whisperer."

But "at the end of the day, I'm a song and dance man," Morrison said in a release. "It's almost a spiritual relationship you have with an audience. … I love it more than anything."

Funds raised at Gala 2013 support the arts at Lehigh University and Zoellner Arts Center's presentations of guest artists, community service initiatives, educational and family programs.